On January 21, 1892, Coskata Life-Saving Station keeper Walter Nelson Chase and his crew completed one of the most remarkable and heroic rescues in Nantucket history.
On Thursday, November 8, engineering professor Fred Looft and twenty-one students from Worchester Polytechnic Institute visited the Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum.
Visit the Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum to view the original 1857 Great Point lens, dismantled by the Coast Guard in 1971, and original 1818 roof cap.
On Friday, June 1 Egan Maritime welcomed its members to the Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum to celebrate the 2018 season and the museum's fiftieth year since incorporation.
Fifty shipwreck stories to mark fifty years of incorporation in the Monaghan Gallery at the Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum.
In 1995 the then Nantucket Lifesaving Museum acquires an original lifesaving boat from the Henry Ford Museum.
The lifesaving legacy of Robert "Bob" Caldwell fifty years after the incorporation of today's Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum.
Enjoy photos from 2017's Family Days at the Museum, free to all thanks to a generous gift from the Battle Family.
Free maritime crafts, scavenger hunts, stories, and outdoor activities for all at 158 Polpis Road.